Obituaries:  Mrs. Emma Williams, Sabine Parish       W-452
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 18, 1983
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. Emma Williams

  Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Williams, are to be held Sunday,
August 21, 1983, at 1 p.m., at the Lone Star Baptist Church in
Many, La. Interment will follow at the church cemetery. Services
will be under the direction of Fondel Funeral Home from Lake
Charles. Her body will lie in state at the church from 12 noon
until 1 p.m.

  Mrs. Williams was the former Emma Barrett. She died Sunday,
August 14, 1983, at 9:30 p.m., at the Charity Hospital in Lake
Charles, after a long illness. She died at the age of 107 years,
11 months, 18 days.

  She leaves to mourn, four children. Two daughters, Mrs. Nourie
Lee Carhee of Many, and Mrs. Bessie Mae Gamble of DeRidder; two
sons, Mr. and Mrs. Albert, and John L. Williams, both of Lake
Charles; 27 grandchildren; 43 great grandchildren; 2 great-great
grandchildren; a host of nieces and nephews, and other relatives
and friends. We loved her but God loved her best. Mrs. Emma
Barrett Williams was the fifth generation of the Williams Family.